Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and
psychological elements involved in historical denial. Tony Taylor
surveys major cases in 20th- and 21st-century historical denial
that illustrate the nature of prejudice and how it relates to
techniques of the instigators of denial, including their use of
popular media and the Internet. Among the issues canvassed are
denial and the Armenian atrocities as a governmental phenomenon;
Holocaust denial in Australia and overseas as a racist phenomenon;
Stalinist denial by Marxist historians post-1945 as an ideological
phenomenon; Japanese ultra-nationalist denial from the 1960s to
date as a cultural phenomenon; Serbian denial of 1990s Balkan
atrocities as an ethnic phenomenon, and others. At a time when most
debates seem to accept the arguments of the deniers at face value
the book will focus on the pathology of denial as an abuse of
history through wilful distortion of events and eager
self-deception. Denial is also now a major online industry:
hate/denial/conspiracy sites have proliferated in the past ten
years, a development complicated by new technological developments
such as blogging, the strategic diversion of readers from
apparently legitimate sites to racist sites, and the jamming of
mainstream sites with denial messages.
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